Pauline Beaumont
Pauline is a Mental Health Trainer for The Charlie Waller Trust and Wellbeing expert at The Sourdough School.
Instagram: @paulinemarybeaumont
www.paulinemarybeaumont.wordpress.com
Photo credit: Sophie Davidson
Biography
After studying Psychology and Philosophy, Pauline Beaumont began a 20-year career in the arts. A return to higher education led to a career in mental health and work as a Student Counsellor. In 2021, she was appointed the in-house Wellbeing Expert for The Sourdough School and in 2022 she began work as a trainer for The Charlie Waller Trust, a mental health charity with a focus on children and young people.
Big families have figured largely in her life. She is the oldest of six siblings and has six, now grown up, children herself. While bringing up her family and working in the north of England, baking bread became increasingly important to her. She found the pattern of bread-making shaped her days, as it continues to do, providing an antidote to the inevitable stresses of life. Her book reveals how to slow down and bake bread mindfully.
Books
Bread Therapy
Her first book, BREAD THERAPY, looks at the way bread making can act as form of therapy and self-care. Published in September 2020, it is a love letter to real bread and the many ways baking our own loaves can help us to feel well and to live better lives. A self-help book with recipes, it celebrates bread making as a way of understanding ourselves better, learning important life lessons and making positive changes to our mental and physical wellbeing.
'Written so beautifully and so eloquently, I couldn't recommend Bread Therapy more.' Ella Mills